LIV. MCAL Functions

Introduction

Libmcal is a C library for accessing calendars. It's written to be
very modular, with pluggable drivers. MCAL is the calendar
equivalent of the IMAP module for mailboxes.

With mcal support, a calendar stream can be opened much like the
mailbox stream with the IMAP support. Calendars can be local file
stores, remote ICAP servers, or other formats that are supported
by the mcal library.

Calendar events can be pulled up, queried, and stored. There is
also support for calendar triggers (alarms) and recurring events.

With libmcal, central calendar servers can be accessed,
removing the need for any specific database or local file
programming.

Most of the functions use an internal event structure that is
unique for each stream. This alleviates the need to pass around
large objects between functions. There are convenience functions
for setting, initializing, and retrieving the event structure
values.

Note:
This extension has been removed as of PHP 5 and moved to the
PECL repository.

Note:
PHP had an ICAP extension previously, but the original library
and the PHP extension is not supported anymore. The suggested
replacement is MCAL.

Note: This extension is not
available on Windows platforms.

Requirements

This extension requires the mcal library to be installed. Grab the
latest version from http://mcal.chek.com/
and compile and install it.

Installation

After you installed the mcal library, to get these functions to
work, you have to compile PHP
-with-mcal[=DIR].

Runtime Configuration

This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.

Resource Types

This extension has no resource types defined.

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and
will only be available when the extension has either
been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.